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And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that [is] to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;

for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

so then the faith [is] by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,

for if God the natural branches did not spare -- lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

Lo, then, goodness and severity of God -- upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

for unrepented of [are] the gifts and the calling of God;

for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what [is] the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,